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Also known as
- Clodoaldus
- Claud
Profile
French royalty, son of King Clodomir and Clotilde, and grandson of King Clovis and Saint Clotilda. His father died in battle when his children were still quite young. The king‘s sons were raised in Paris, France by their grandmother, Saint Clotilda, until an ambitious uncle murdered two of them in a power grab. Clodoaldus escaped, renounced all claims to the throne, and lived as a studious hermit.
Student of Saint Severinus. Withdrew to Provence to live as a prayerful hermit, but when his identity became known, his hermitage became a destination point for pilgrims, and he returned to Paris. Priest. Built a monastery near Paris, a house later known as Saint Cloud, retired there, and led a community of holy brothers by his example. The town of Saint Cloud grew up around the monastery.
Born
Name Meaning
- out of the mist [middle english]
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Lives of the Saints, by Omer Englebert
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints
MLA Citation
- “Saint Cloud”. Saints.SQPN.com. 27 September 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-cloud/>